Another week, another Readers Recommend. Yet stalwart RR nominators don't have much truck with repetition. I was hauled over the coals a couple of weeks ago for including songs on the playlist that had previously been A-listed.

This week I'm not after songs that feature repetition – there are simply too many of them. Because repetition is a crucial part of music. Remember the 1994 Criminal Justice Bill, which tried to outlaw raves featuring music "wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats"?

But repetition is very much on musicians' minds. In making music, they recognise the pleasures of repetition. We can lose ourselves in it. And there is satisfaction in identifying a pattern.

And there are also songs that wearily recognise history repeating itself, placing a foot once again on life's treadmill.